Improvement in wrappers for needles



- of my wrappers when unfolded.

U NITED STATES, PATENT Barron;

SINEUS E. TOTTEN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN WRAPPERS FOR NEEDLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 59,095, dated October 23, 1866; antedated 1 October 7, 1866.

' Wrapper for Needles and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same,

reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents a plan or top view of one Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section of the same when 'folded.

- Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention consists in the application to a wrapper for needles of apiece of magnetized erally used for wrapping needles. When such a wrapper is opened the needles are liable to roll'or drop'ofi', and much time is lost in putting them back when the wrapper is to be refolded. This difficult-y is overcome by securing'to the middle of the wrapper apiece, B, of sheet-steel, which is hardened and magnetized, or any other piece of magnetized sheet metal, though in the present time steel is the only metal known which when hardened will retainthe magnetism. By the magnetic power of the plate B the needles are prevented from rolling or dropping off when the wrapper is opened, and all the time generally spent in replacing the needles in the wrapper is saved.

The cost of my magnetic attachment to the wrapper is but trifling, and does not compare with the great advantage obtained by its use.

What- 1 claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- Awrapper for needles provided with a mag netic attachment, substantially such as herein described, for the purpose set forth.

SINEUS E. TOTTEN.

Witnesses:

L. (J. Tor'rnn, O. L. TOPLIFF. 

